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Pick The Right Drinking Water Filter System

By: Trent Barrett

There are many different options on the market today for delivering clean water to your home, from the cheap activated charcoal faucet-mounted filters to the complex reverse osmosis systems that install under your kitchen sink. While you may be tempted to go with the least expensive water filter system, you should consider your needs first. For someone who buys lots of bottled water, a good reverse osmosis system may be better; for country water that comes from a well, an ultraviolet filter may be a better choice, with its excellent ability to kill biological contaminants.

For water that's already pretty good right out of the tap, a standard activated charcoal water filteer system is fine. This filter mounts on your faucet and forces water through to filter out biological and some mineral contaminants, resulting in cleaner good-tasting water right at your kitchen sink. Ceramic water filter systems work in an identical fashion, but use diatomaceous earth like most municipal systems rather than carbon.

If your water is relatively unpleasant to drink and you find yourself spending a lot of money every month on bottled water, it might be a good idea to go with a reverse osmosis drinking water filter system. The most basic of these consists of an osmotic filter where the water comes in, a reservoir where purified water is stored, and a tap separate from your regular sink tap where your purified water comes out. Where the activated charcoal water filter system removes contaminants when water is forced through the filter, an osmotic filter removes contaminants passively, allowing very pure water to seep through the filter while all contaminants remain on the other side. The result is bottled-water quality drinking water.

Even though a reverse osmosis drinking water filter system is perhaps the best possible water filtration system you can get, it has a couple of problems. If you also live in a drought-prone area, you should know that for every gallon of purified water your reverse osmosis system makes, ten more gallons are wasted - not a problem if you water your garden and yard from a gray water tank, but a potential problem if you are very sensitive to wasted water. Also, once in a while a biological contaminant can get through the osmotic filters, and only one can contaminate your entire reservoir. For this reason, most reverse osmosis systems also include an ultraviolet water purifier at the end that shines UV rays through your reservoir, killing every biological contaminant there while leaving your water otherwise unchanged.

If you have a problem with hard water or people in your home with breathing problems, you may want to go with a whole house water filter system as opposed to just a drinking water filter system. These devices are complicated (requiring a plumber to install them) and expensive, but will treat the water in your whole house rather than just your drinking water. When you go this route, you will not only be drinking purer water, but because the shower will no longer vaporize chlorine and other toxins dissolved in your water, you'll be breathing purer air.

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Trent Barrett is a consultant who writes for Home water purifiers. You can visit their homepage to learn more about home water purification systems



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